The bus journey to KL was the slowest ever. The bus was geared so low (must have been for the mountainous climbs) that whenever the bus was on a hill on the motorway the driver put the bus into neutral so we could speed up as he'd run out of gears! After what seemed like an eternity we arrive in KL and checked into our Chinatown hostel. We managed to avoid the dorm thankfully and got a double room (with bunk beds) for 60p each a night more, worth it. We left pret...

This was our final day in the highlands so we decided we would try and complete as many trails as possible. We got up nice and early and thankfully the typically British weather we are experiencing here was on our side, after a torrential down pour all night. The route started as our 9A route had two days earlier but after a short while branched off up a steep incline. We climbed for maybe 20 minutes (hands and feet) but little did we know how much more of this t...

We dragged ourselves out of bed this morning an hour and a half later than we'd planned! We grabbed a quick breakfast and set off for another jungle adventure. This was a pretty easy route which suggested would take an hour but we managed to complete it in half that. We arrived back into town just before lunch with little to do for rest of the day. The Cameron Highlands is famous for its Tea plantations so we decided to set off walking to the plantation nearest t...

So we grabbed breakfast and put the finishing touches to our treking plan for this morning. None of the maps have a scale, madness really and made planning a little harder than it should have been.We set off on the trail 9A which would take us past a waterfall, through the jungle and back on the main road where we'd either walk 9km back to town or catch the bus.The trail was really fun, not too difficult but had to climb over enough obstacles to feel as though we...

We both slept much better last night in the new guesthouse but were happy with the thought of moving on to another area of Malaysia.The Cameron Highlands are about 200 km from Penang, a 4.5 hour bus journey. The peak of the highlands at over 5000 feet is the highest point on the Malaysian mainland and has a really cool climate where temperature range from 12 degree to 25 degrees all year round. While there we will have the opportunity to go on treks through the l...